Charitable accounts of the Salters' Company

City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report; Volume 4. Originally published by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1884.

Citation:

City of London Livery Companies Commission, 'Charitable accounts of the Salters' Company', in City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report; Volume 4( London, 1884), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/livery-companies-commission/vol4/pp511-516 [accessed 28 November 2024].

SALTERS' COMPANY.

Sir Ambrose Nicholas' Charity, in account with the Salters' Company.

Expenditure and Income Account.

Dr.



Date.	—				Amount.
					£	s.	d.
From 1 July 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To outlay for various expenses, viz.:
		£	s.	d.
	Pensions for 12 inmates at 14s. a week for 52 weeks	436	16	0
	Less vacant almshouse, one month	2	16	0
					434	0	0
	Alice Martin, formerly an inmate now an imbecile, annual allowance				42	0	0
	Miss A. A. Batty, annual allowance				50	0	0
	" E. Batty do.				50	0	0
	" E. S. Batty do.				50	0	0
	Mrs. E. C. Martin do.				20	0	0
	" E. L. Webb do.				20	0	0
	" S. Solly do.				100	0	0
	" E. Drink water, ½ year allowance				10	0	0
	" S. Houghton do.				10	0	0
	" A. Heath do.				10	0	0
	Mr. A. K. Taylor. ¾ year allowance				22	10	0
	Paid to make up the amount of 2 inmates of almshouses to 31s. each on distribution day, 1880				1	10	0
	Surveyor's charges				5	12	0
	Repairs to the 12 tenements				27	10	3
	Coals				38	5	10
	Gas				9	3	4
	Water				10	10	0
	Medical attendance				35	0	0
	Garden expenses				26	5	4
	Expenses of beadle superintending almshouses, including sundry railway expenses				3	14	2
	Gatekeeper and lamplighter				12	2	8
	Insurance and rates				11	6	6
	Payment in respect of pews reserved for 12 almspeople				8	6	8
	Payment towards general expenses of the Church				3	6	8
	Payment towards Curates' Fund				3	6	8
	Subscription to fire brigade				1	8	0
	Do. district schools				3	10	0
	Expenses of management				75	0	0
	Towards funeral expenses of M. A. Spooner				5	0	0
	Wines, &c. for inmates under medical advice				2	5	7
	Miscellaneous expenses				6	8	8
	To interest 1 year of 1,854l. 18s. 9d., balance unexpended on rebuilding of almshouses at 4½ per cent.				83	9	6
	Balance to capital account in reduction of debt				321	8	2
					1,513	0	0

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
From 1 July 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By half-year's ground rent received 22nd October 1880	750	0	0
By half-year's ground rent received 22nd April 1881		750	0	0
By cash received from Robson's Charity		13	0	0
		1,513	0	0

(Signed) Edw. Lionel Scott, Clerk.

Sir Ambrose Nicholas' Charity, in account with the Salters' Company.

Capital Account.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
1880. July 1	To balance of account rendered	1,854	18	9
		1,854	18	9
1881. July 1	To balance	1,533	10	7

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
1881. June 30	By balance from expenditure and income account towards liquidation of debt	321	8	2
By balance carried forward		1,533	10	7
		1,854	18	9

(Signed) Edw. Lionel Scott, Clerk.

The Salters' Company, in account with Beamond's Gift.

Almshouse Account.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To six poor men, being 7d. per week to each from 30th June 1880 to Beaumond's	9	2	0
	To Thos. Barber's Gift	0	10	2
	To Mrs. Cocks' Gift	2	0	0
	To John Garrett's Gift	1	6	0
	To Robert Payne's Gift	0	10	0
	To Wm. Robson's Gift	6	0	0
	To Thos. Salter's Gift	3	7	0
	To John Scott's Gift	2	12	0
	To James Smith's Gift	8	0	0
	To Sir J. Coates' Gift	2	14	0
		36	1	2
	To cash paid by the Company out of their funds	306	18	10
		343	0	0

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By pensions for six inmates at 14s. each per week for 52 weeks	218	8	0
	By Sunday gifts to the almspeople on distribution day in December 1880	20	9	2
	By cash paid, surveyor's charges	2	16	0
	Do. repairs to the six tenements	13	15	1
	Do. for coals	19	2	10
	Do. for gas	4	11	8
	Do. for water	5	5	0
	Do. for medical attendance	17	10	0
	Do. for garden expenses	13	2	8
	Do. for expenses of beadle superintending almshouses, including sundry railway expenses	1	18	10
	Do. for gatekeeper and lamplighter	6	1	4
	Do. for insurance and rates	5	13	3
	Do. in respect of pews reserved for almspeople	4	3	4
	Do. towards general expenses of the Church	1	13	4
	Do. subscription to fire brigade	0	14	0
	Do. subscription to Curates' Fund	1	13	4
	Do. subscription to district schools	1	15	0
	Do. for wine for inmates under medical advice	1	2	10
	Do. for miscellaneous expenses	3	4	4
		343	0	0

(Signed) Edw. Lionel Scott, Clerk.

Thos. Barber's Gift.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To interest on 200l. at 4 per cent. per annum, for one year to 30th June 1881.	8	0	0
		8	0	0

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By cash paid to the several objects specified by the donor, for one year to 30th June 1881.	1	1	6
	By cash paid to poor of St. Botolph, Billingsgate	6	18	6
		8	0	0

Sir John Coates' Gift.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To interest on 133l. 6s. 8d., as directed by donor, for one year to 30th June 1881	7	10	0
		7	10	0

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By cash paid to the objects enjoined by the donor, for one year to 30th June 1881	4	16	0
	By Beamond's Almshouse Account	2	14	0
		7	10	0

Mrs. Cocks' Gift.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To interest on 100l., as directed by donor, for one year to 30th June 1881	6	5	0

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By cash paid to the several objects enjoined by the donor, for one year to 30th June 1881	6	5	0

(Signed) Edw. Lionel Scott, Clerk.

David Cocks' Gift.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To interest on 100l., as directed by donor, for one year to 30th June 1881	2	6	8

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By cash paid to the several objects enjoined by the donor, for one year to 30th June 1881	2	6	8

Ellis Crisp's Gift.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To interest on 150l. at 4 per cent. per annum, for one year to 30th June 1881	6	0	0

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By cash paid the several objects and persons enjoined by the donor, for one year to 30th June 1881	6	0	0

John Garratt's Gift.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	8.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To cash, being one year's dividend on 43l. 6s. 8d. 3 per cent. Consols (Official Trustees of Charitable Funds)	1	0	0

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By cash paid to the several objects mentioned in the will of the donor, for one year to 30th June 1881	1	6	0

Robert Harding's Gift.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To amount appropriated from the Company's funds to pay this gift, for one year to 30th June 1881	2	0	0

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By cash paid to the several objects mentioned in the will of the donor, for one year to 30th June 1881	2	0	0

John Ireland's Gift.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To interest on 200l., as directed by donor, one year to 30th June 1881	8	0	0
		8	0	0

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By cash paid to the objects enjoined by the donor, for one year to 30th June 1881, viz., officers of the Company and poor	4	0	0
	Ward of Bread Street at Easton	4	0	0
		8	0	0

Barnard Hyde's Gift.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To cash being one year's dividend on 1,916l. 13s. 4d. 3 per cent. Consols (Official Trustees of Charitable Funds)	57	10	0
		57	10	0

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By cash paid to the several object specified in the deed of trust, for one year to 30th June 1881, viz.:
	To a preacher, for a weekly lecture on Tuesday in each week in the parish of St. Mary at Hill (see Note)	30	0	0
	Amongst 10 poor people of said parish	5	0	0
	To 10 poor women of the Salters' Company	5	0	0
	To the churchwarden of Little Ilford, for 4 poor persons of the parish	1	0	0
	To 54 poor widows or maidens of 3 parishes, as specified by the donor	13	10	0
	Retained by the Master and Wardens and Officers of the Company for their trouble, as appointed	3	0	0
		57	10	0

Note.—The actual stipend paid the preacher is 70l. per annum, the Company defraying the additional expenditure of 40l. out of their own funds.

(Signed) Edw. Lionel Scott, Clerk.

Lady Nicholas' Gift.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To interest on 50l., as directed by the donor, for one year to 30th June 1881	1	0	0

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By cash paid to the churchwardens of the parish of St. Mildred, Bread Street	1	0	0

Robert Payne's Gift.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To interest on 100l., as directed by the donor, for one year to 30th June 1881	1	0	0
		1	0	0

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By Beamond's Almshouses	0	10	0
	By other payments, as directed by donor	0	10	0
		1	0	0

Henry Plompton's Gift.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To interest, as directed by the donor, for one year to 30th June 1881	1	0	0

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By cash paid to the objects mentioned by the donor, for one year to 30th June 1881	1	0	0

(Signed) Edw. Lionel Scott, Clerk.

William Robson's Gift.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To one year's dividend on 3,583l. 6s. 8d. 3 per cent. Consols (Official Trustees of Charitable Funds)	107	10	0

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By cash paid to the several objects mentioned in the donor's deed (except his aniversary feast, the fee to the minister and clerk is now paid to the minister, &c. of Newport, Salop, (fn. 1) ) for one year to 30th June 1881	107	10	0

Sir Thos. Salter's Gift.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To payments in respect of 133l. 6s. 8d., as directed by the donor, for one year to 30th June 1881	4	18	0
		4	18	0

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By cash paid to the several objects enjoined by the donor (as detailed in prior accounts), for one year to 30th June 1881	2	6	0
	By Beamond's Almshouses	2	12	0
		4	18	0

John Scott's Gift.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To cash, being one year's dividend on 302l. 6s. 8d. 3 per cent. Consols (Official Trustees of Charitable Funds)	9	12	2
		9	12	2

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By Beamond's Almshouses	2	12	0
	By Nicholas' Almshouses	5	0	0
	By parish of St. Margaret Moses for coals	2	0	2
		9	12	2

(Signed) Edw. Lionel Scott, Clerk.

James Smith's Gift.

Mrs. Parkhurst and Miss Smith's Gift.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To cash received from Mr. Joseph Gardner, half year's rent of Norden Farm, due Michaelmas 1880	118	0	0
	To cash received from Mr. Parsons for half-year's rent do. do., due Lady Day 1881	118	0	0
	To cash received from Mr. Silver for half-year's rent, due Michaelmas 1880	7	0	0
	To cash, one year's dividends on 1153l. 18s. 11d. 3 per cent Consols (Official Trustees of Charitable Funds)	34	12	4
	To cash from Mrs. Parkhurst and Miss Smith's, issuing from rentcharge of Mudbrook Farm, Rotherhithe, due Lady Day 1881	45	12	0
	To cash, Mrs. Smith's Gift, for one year to 30th June 1881	8	0	0
	To cash, for one year's dividend on 900l. 10s. 4d. 3½ per cent. Metropolitan Consolidated Stock, George Pearce's Trust	31	10	4
		362	14	8

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By balance brought forward	22	10	6
	By cash paid, insurances on Norden Farm and outbuildings	2	10	3
	Almshouses	1	10	0
		4	0	3
	By do. do. for coals	14	8	0
	By do. do. for medical attendance, one year	25	0	0
	By do. do. for supply of water, one year	6	10	0
	By do. do. for surveyor's charges	3	16	10
	By do. do. for biennial clothing and making up same	22	11	1
	By do. do. for law charges, including 1s. 4d. for fee-farm rent to Earl Somers	5	16	4
	By do. do. to almspeople and sundry others, as per founder's will, &c., as set forth in return 1866/1867, fo. 18	222	12	0
	By do. do. almspeople at the annual views, 1880	6	10	0
	By do. do. almspeople at Christmas	11	0	0
	By balance carried down	17	19	8
		362	14	8

(Signed) Edw. Lionel Scott, Clerk.

Sir Timothy Waldo's Gift.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To cash, being balance in hand, Apprenticing Fund	23	11	8
	To do. for one year's dividend on 607l. 4s. 9d. 3 per cent. Consols	18	4	4
		41	16	0

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By cash on distribution day of the Company's Bounty, December 1880	5	0	0
	By do. paid for warm clothing for the poor of Flever, 1880	7	10	0
	By balance in Company's hands, Apprenticing Fund	29	6	0
		41	16	0

John Wicks' Gift.

Dr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	To rent received by the Company, for one year to 30th June 1881	6	10	0

Cr.



Date.	—	Amount.
		£	s.	d.
30 June 1880 to 30 June 1881.	By cash paid to the inmates of the almshouses at Watford on the Company's distribution day in December 1880, according to the donor's bequest	6	10	0

(Signed) Edw. Lionel Scott, Clerk.